Former Asst. Director of CIA for South and Central Asia Dave Pitts weighs in on the danger of strategic surprise amid transition.

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The author argues that the intelligence community must fix cognitive shortcomings of traditional analysis for today's chaotic world?

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DEEP DIVE — Throughout Election Day and a long election night, one major story had nothing to do with the results at the ...

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Moldova is a deeply polarized nation. A large number of educated Moldovan citizens are working abroad because of a lack of jobs at home. That diaspora, along with people in the capital, Chisinau, ...

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As a divided nation hurtles towards the election, and officials worry about politically-driven violence, potential nightmares ...

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Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh also said that some of the North Korean forces have already moved closer to Ukraine, and ...